Feeling limitless just north of Hatfield
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jane and Fi’s career delusions continue today as they ponder why they’ve never been offered a professional cricket commentary career. They also chat embracing 2026, socks over shoes, being a centrist granny, and moving to Dubai. Please also heed an accent warning!
Plus, former prisoner turned writer and actor Ric Renton discusses working on the new BBC prison drama Waiting for the Out.
Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a song in my head. |
| 0:10.6 | What's it called? |
| 0:11.3 | I just can't get out of my head. |
| 0:13.7 | It's just, it's terrible. |
| 0:15.5 | It's been on repeat for about the last 48 hours. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh, God. |
| 0:18.3 | What can you do to get rid of it? |
| 0:19.5 | Well, I've tried everything. |
| 0:22.7 | I tried it. I even tried our own playlist this morning. |
| 0:26.1 | So I think with an earworm, |
| 0:29.0 | if living off a prayer can't knock it out of your head, |
| 0:32.0 | then nothing can. |
| 0:32.9 | Leave it out of breath. |
| 0:34.9 | With the, uh, what, a what, a what, |
| 0:37.0 | at the beginning. |
| 0:39.9 | Anyway, the more I talk about it, the worse it makes it. |
| 0:43.1 | And breathe Thursday. |
| 0:45.6 | Now, we are waiting for Storm Goretti, which it doesn't... |
| 0:49.8 | I mean, I've come in in sort of heavy-duty clothing again. |
| 0:53.1 | Nothing's happened. |
| 0:54.4 | Well, I wouldn't tempt fake by saying. |
| 0:56.1 | No, okay, no, okay. |
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